29 Aug
Plumbing | General
Cowdenbeath, Kelty - KY4
Enquiry from: Arif K
Start Date: Immediate
Leaking valve changed under toilet cistern
Cowdenbeath
Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It lies 5 miles north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town established around the vast coalfields of the area and became a Police Burgh in 1890. According to population statistics from 2008, Cowdenbeath has a fixed population of around 14081. Among this population, 48.5 percent are male and 51.5 percent are female, which is consistent with the proportional split by gender in both the Fife and Scottish populations. Until 1850, Cowdenbeath was merely a group of farms divided into 4 districts named after nearby farms. Local citizens of these focal points of growth, which were combining into a single town, met to select a name for the emerging town. The ultimate choice was narrowed down to either White Threshes or Cowdenbeath. The arrival of the Oakley Iron Company around 1850 was to have an enduring impact upon Cowdenbeath, making the name tantamount with coal-mining for almost 100 years. Shafts were sunk in the vicinity of the old Foulford Washer. It was in the mining for ore that the discoveries of the coal seams were made, and pits were sunk at every corner of the town. Characterising the northern border of Cowdenbeath is a rural landscape, which merges into the Lochore Meadows Country Park, 'The Meadies'. This previously commercial and mining landscape, which was home to several pit-heads including the Mary Pit, whose winding equipment structure dominates the park as a memorial to its important mining history, is at present a very beautiful area which offers leisure and recreational outdoor facilities. For all of your house upgrades, take care to work with trustworthy specialists in Cowdenbeath to assure quality.
